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... especially when you’re competing with a shopping mall-- or with the Chinese run discount stores that have popped up all over Spain. Finally I reach the main pedestrian street which, despite most shops being closed, still has some life to it. I stroll up and down it, enjoying the the atmosphere. I notice another big change since I lived here in Spain back in the 90s. Back then it was rare to see a fat person, and you almost never saw a really obese ...

... lookout and ate our picnic lunch. Then we finally headed to our next stop: Sevilla. A word on google maps - certainly great in getting you to a city, less so in actually getting you in any logical way to your final destination by car. Took a stab at the area of our apartment, then simply drive in a sort-of diminishingly circular fashion till we hit our destination - this seems to work fairly well! Again, the urban planners of ...

... a lot of noise in the big Chapin stadium. They were 4-0 up at half time and just cruised through the second half, only adding one more before the end. We tried a different flamenco bar last night. It was packed and the singer seemed to be famous, but he turned out to be a real crooner singing old-fashioned sickly ballads, not flamenco at all, but the bar did have some fantastic flamenco murals so worth a visit and a couple of ...

... br> According to our guide book, the Sierra around Cordoba contain a number of sites of outstanding interest, the most important of them 'without a doubt being the palace city of Medina Azahara.’ You have to park at the museum and take a bus to the site; which turns out to look a lot like a Roman archaeological site with Moorish arches instead of columns. The most interesting and complete building – ‘the ...

... deserted ghost town with all of the shops shuttered and tumbleweed rolling down the streets. Activity would pick-up again later in the day, and people of all ages would be out walking, eating, chatting, etc well past midnight.

Hearing that we would be able to go to this 'huge' festival conjured up images of Andalusian horses, Flamenco dancers and delicious food. As Heather said, it was still fun, just not quite as envisioned. It probably would've been even better ...